Publications : 65
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PublicationThe Waterloo Archive: Volume III: The British Sources
From the publishers: The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming as they are with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts. The human aspect of war comes to the fore, the humour and exhilaration; the fears and miseries; the starvation and exhaustion; the horror and […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Chicken Marengo
From the publishers:This work tells the story of Chicken Marengo, and cuts through the tangle of myths that has sprung up around it. Supposedly created on the evening of Napoleon's victory at Marengo, the dish rapidly conquered Paris, and became a renowned symbol of French haute cuisine. The author sets the dish in its […]
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PublicationThe Contested Nation: Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories
From the publishers:How did national histories in Europe come into being and which were most successful in underpinning national identities? Who constructed the narratives of 'the nation' and why were they accepted, rejected or contested? How did the discourse of 'the nation' integrate narratives of ethnicity, race, class, religion and gender? This volume provides answers […]
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PublicationPublic Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840
From the publishers:Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings where exemplary individuals were commemorated) she offers new insights into the cultural dimension of State formation and the politics of elite […]
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PublicationNapoleon
From the publishers:On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead Emperor's corpse from the Island of St Helena was a moment that Paris had […]
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PublicationNapoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
From the publishers:Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, establishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. Based on extensive research in French and American archives, and supported by his […]
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PublicationMonarchy and Exile: the Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II
From the publishers:Looking at fifteen different royal figures who went into exile, this volume discusses the role of exiled monarchs in domestic politics, in the state system in Europe and in the dynastic networks which transcended national frontiers. From the Jacobite diaspora and the French royalist émigrés to the German monarchists who hoped to install […]
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PublicationTrafalgar (Tales from the Front Line)
From the publishers:This title offers an insight into the most significant naval battle in history, told through the accounts of those who were actually there. Here you will find original accounts from the great military leaders of the time – including Nelson – as well as the experiences of the ordinary seamen and civilian witnesses. […]
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PublicationPoverty, Gender and the Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
From the publishers:Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a 'crisis' period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a […]
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PublicationThe Waterloo Collection: Cavalry Charge – La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit (DVD)
From the publishers:The period from mid-afternoon until early evening on that terrible Sunday was the time, as Wellington described it, of 'hard pounding'. The three programmes on this disc cover the massed French cavalry attacks led by Marshal Ney, the battle fought by the Kings German Legion and the 95th Rifles to hold La Haie […]